God Still Hates me...
December Something 2006
Life is still in the way and God Still Hates me.
All I can say is why can’t I be happy without being shoved in the face with something bad? I understand (and appreciate) the need for balance, but do you have to hit me with everything at once?
Whatever.
And then again, I have to be happy that it is not worse. It is actually getting better, but I am still a wee bit stressed about things.
Hey, it is that time of year where we all do the inevitable: Top Ten Lists of The Year!
(Disclaimer: the following lists may not contain actually ten things)
Top Movies of the Year:
1. Fearless: Jet Li kicks ass by not kicking ass. But there is still plenty of kicking ass.
2. Superman Returns: Vastly underrated and reinforced that the Man of Steel (along with Captain America) are the last two pure superheroes out there
3. Clerks II: Behind the dirty jokes is plenty of heart with one of the best ending of any movies ever
4. Brick: Just oozing with style to accompany the substance
5. Cars: I did not want to like this, but I have such a fond spot for Pixar movies
Guilty Pleasure: Fast & the Furious Tokyo Drift, MI: III, Ultraviolet, Dragon Squad
Crap: X-Men III
I have yet to see: Pirates of the Caribbean II (though the DVD is waiting for me at home), The Departed, Rob-B-Hood, and Pan’s Labyrinth
Top TV Shows:
1. Doctor Who
2. 24
3. MI-5/Spooks (seen only via DVD)
4. Hustle (seen only the 1st season via DVD, but that rocked)
5. Bones
Guilty Pleasures: Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, the Office & Heroes
I don’t watch but I keep up with it: Lost
Good Early Death: Alias
Best New Band That I first heard of this year:
1. The Birthday Massacre
2. Combichrist
3. Rotersand
4. Tokyo Rose
5. KMFDM (okay so, I have listened to them for years, but seeing them live just made me fall in love with them again in different ways)
Honorary Mention: Bebot by the Black Eyed Peas- talk about reinforcing my Filipino pride- SIGE!
Best Shows:
1. The Birthday Massacre at the White Rabbit in San Antonio
2. KMFDM at Emo’s
3. Combichrist at Emo’s (yes, I know it was the same show as KMFDM)
4. Echo and the Bunnymen at SXSW
5. SXSW in general (despite not having a wristband)
Best Comics of the Year (comics):
1. Runaways (it shows how good this book is because I am not looking forward to Joss Whedon taking over)
2. Street Fighter (just plain fun)
3. Transformers: Infiltration (the upcoming movie will never be as good as this)
4. N.E.X.T.WAVE (beautiful insanity)
5. The Eternals (I am waiting for the series to finish before reading past issue two, despite what I say below, the first two issues were not sucky. Perfect- no? But definitely not sucky)
6. The Punisher (Garth Ennis’ best work since his first run on Hellblazer? Because the last half of Preacher just sucked)
7. Civil War (stoopid first issue- aside from the Captain America bits, but it got better- so far, it aint over yet)
8. Infinite Crisis (I wish I could punch the walls of reality)
9. Neverwhere (second best comic book adaptation, the first being the Mignola Dracula book)
Decent so far: Action Comics by Richard Donner, Geoff Johns & Adam Kubert
The comics on this list read great in their individual issues and also great as collected trades. Most comics today only read great when read as trades and sucky as individual issues.
Best Non-Comics:
1. Fragile Things (technically have not opened the book yet save for the introduction but I did read at least half of the stores in there elsewhere)
2. Private Wars by Greg Rucka
Best Watching on DVD:
1. The X-Files
2. La Femme Nikita
3. Spooks/MI-5
4. Hustle
5. Doctor Who (not only the new series, there are some great old ones out there)
6. Dungeons and Dragons (and I just started watching them!)
7. Batman Beyond/Justice League
8. 24
9. Star Trek (any and all of them)
10. Sleeper Cell
Still a disappointment but an odd guilty pleasure: King Kong, the last seasons of Alias
I am still waiting for: Blade-the TV series (the pilot was awesome)
I Still Miss:
1. California
2. In N Out Burgers
3. CD Trader in Tarzana
4. The Pacific Ocean (specifically Leo Carrillo State beach)
5. When life was much simpler
Despite that, I still have no:
1. Regrets
What I like about Austin in the eighteen months I have lived here:
1. Austin Books and Comics- quite simply the best comic book store in the world
2. The Austin Record Convention
3. SXSW- even when you do not have a wristband, it was fun
4. Alamo Drafthouse- but I do not go enough
5. That Moroccan café/restaurant on Congress right in front of the Capitol
6. That big ass Whole Foods, makes me wish I had more money
7. Bookpeople
What I do not like about Austin in the eighteen months I have lived here:
(because nothing is perfect or fair- see rant at beginning of post)
1. The Lake that is not a lake
2. The freeways
3. A good number of the drivers on those freeways (not a majority, but a good number- and not that I am a saintly driver, but could you please slow down or signal or not drive too close when I am already going 70?)
4. How high school kids do fundraising by pan handling on street corners
5. Pretentious indie rock and the people who love them too much
Honorary thing I do not like about Austin: Harry Knowles- talk about pretentious. But we hate him in a good way (mostly I disagree with a lot of his reviews and opinions, even on movies we both like).
I have surprised myself this year by:
1. Becoming vegetarian (not having In N Out Burgers readily available helped in that decision along with Jean Michel Cousteau’s awesome documentary on the plight of the oceans. I have refused to eat seafood for ethical and moral reasons for at least forever, so I decided to one up that)
Looking forward to in 2007:
1. Living at a home I can call my own with Holly and the cats
2. Drawing on a regular basis again
3. Learning new things instead of just trivial knowledge
4. Maybe getting started on the great American novel/s
5. The new VNV Nation Album/tour
6. The new Cure album/tour
7. Stardust
8. The CGI TMNT Movie
9. The Transformers live action movie
10. Getting one step closer to enlightenment
And finally, the Top Reasons why God hates me:
1. If he puts all his hate onto me, he will hate the rest of you much, much less
2. Just because
3. Karma
4. Because I believe in a pagan belief such as karma
5. I am Filipino
6. I am a Filipino in Texas
7. I am lazy
8. He does not want me to be happy
9. I am dangerous when I am happy
10. Self Pity
_______________________________________________________________________
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http://catterpillarboy.blogspot.com/
http://catterpillarboy.livejournal.com
Life is still in the way and God Still Hates me.
All I can say is why can’t I be happy without being shoved in the face with something bad? I understand (and appreciate) the need for balance, but do you have to hit me with everything at once?
Whatever.
And then again, I have to be happy that it is not worse. It is actually getting better, but I am still a wee bit stressed about things.
Hey, it is that time of year where we all do the inevitable: Top Ten Lists of The Year!
(Disclaimer: the following lists may not contain actually ten things)
Top Movies of the Year:
1. Fearless: Jet Li kicks ass by not kicking ass. But there is still plenty of kicking ass.
2. Superman Returns: Vastly underrated and reinforced that the Man of Steel (along with Captain America) are the last two pure superheroes out there
3. Clerks II: Behind the dirty jokes is plenty of heart with one of the best ending of any movies ever
4. Brick: Just oozing with style to accompany the substance
5. Cars: I did not want to like this, but I have such a fond spot for Pixar movies
Guilty Pleasure: Fast & the Furious Tokyo Drift, MI: III, Ultraviolet, Dragon Squad
Crap: X-Men III
I have yet to see: Pirates of the Caribbean II (though the DVD is waiting for me at home), The Departed, Rob-B-Hood, and Pan’s Labyrinth
Top TV Shows:
1. Doctor Who
2. 24
3. MI-5/Spooks (seen only via DVD)
4. Hustle (seen only the 1st season via DVD, but that rocked)
5. Bones
Guilty Pleasures: Battlestar Galactica, Smallville, the Office & Heroes
I don’t watch but I keep up with it: Lost
Good Early Death: Alias
Best New Band That I first heard of this year:
1. The Birthday Massacre
2. Combichrist
3. Rotersand
4. Tokyo Rose
5. KMFDM (okay so, I have listened to them for years, but seeing them live just made me fall in love with them again in different ways)
Honorary Mention: Bebot by the Black Eyed Peas- talk about reinforcing my Filipino pride- SIGE!
Best Shows:
1. The Birthday Massacre at the White Rabbit in San Antonio
2. KMFDM at Emo’s
3. Combichrist at Emo’s (yes, I know it was the same show as KMFDM)
4. Echo and the Bunnymen at SXSW
5. SXSW in general (despite not having a wristband)
Best Comics of the Year (comics):
1. Runaways (it shows how good this book is because I am not looking forward to Joss Whedon taking over)
2. Street Fighter (just plain fun)
3. Transformers: Infiltration (the upcoming movie will never be as good as this)
4. N.E.X.T.WAVE (beautiful insanity)
5. The Eternals (I am waiting for the series to finish before reading past issue two, despite what I say below, the first two issues were not sucky. Perfect- no? But definitely not sucky)
6. The Punisher (Garth Ennis’ best work since his first run on Hellblazer? Because the last half of Preacher just sucked)
7. Civil War (stoopid first issue- aside from the Captain America bits, but it got better- so far, it aint over yet)
8. Infinite Crisis (I wish I could punch the walls of reality)
9. Neverwhere (second best comic book adaptation, the first being the Mignola Dracula book)
Decent so far: Action Comics by Richard Donner, Geoff Johns & Adam Kubert
The comics on this list read great in their individual issues and also great as collected trades. Most comics today only read great when read as trades and sucky as individual issues.
Best Non-Comics:
1. Fragile Things (technically have not opened the book yet save for the introduction but I did read at least half of the stores in there elsewhere)
2. Private Wars by Greg Rucka
Best Watching on DVD:
1. The X-Files
2. La Femme Nikita
3. Spooks/MI-5
4. Hustle
5. Doctor Who (not only the new series, there are some great old ones out there)
6. Dungeons and Dragons (and I just started watching them!)
7. Batman Beyond/Justice League
8. 24
9. Star Trek (any and all of them)
10. Sleeper Cell
Still a disappointment but an odd guilty pleasure: King Kong, the last seasons of Alias
I am still waiting for: Blade-the TV series (the pilot was awesome)
I Still Miss:
1. California
2. In N Out Burgers
3. CD Trader in Tarzana
4. The Pacific Ocean (specifically Leo Carrillo State beach)
5. When life was much simpler
Despite that, I still have no:
1. Regrets
What I like about Austin in the eighteen months I have lived here:
1. Austin Books and Comics- quite simply the best comic book store in the world
2. The Austin Record Convention
3. SXSW- even when you do not have a wristband, it was fun
4. Alamo Drafthouse- but I do not go enough
5. That Moroccan café/restaurant on Congress right in front of the Capitol
6. That big ass Whole Foods, makes me wish I had more money
7. Bookpeople
What I do not like about Austin in the eighteen months I have lived here:
(because nothing is perfect or fair- see rant at beginning of post)
1. The Lake that is not a lake
2. The freeways
3. A good number of the drivers on those freeways (not a majority, but a good number- and not that I am a saintly driver, but could you please slow down or signal or not drive too close when I am already going 70?)
4. How high school kids do fundraising by pan handling on street corners
5. Pretentious indie rock and the people who love them too much
Honorary thing I do not like about Austin: Harry Knowles- talk about pretentious. But we hate him in a good way (mostly I disagree with a lot of his reviews and opinions, even on movies we both like).
I have surprised myself this year by:
1. Becoming vegetarian (not having In N Out Burgers readily available helped in that decision along with Jean Michel Cousteau’s awesome documentary on the plight of the oceans. I have refused to eat seafood for ethical and moral reasons for at least forever, so I decided to one up that)
Looking forward to in 2007:
1. Living at a home I can call my own with Holly and the cats
2. Drawing on a regular basis again
3. Learning new things instead of just trivial knowledge
4. Maybe getting started on the great American novel/s
5. The new VNV Nation Album/tour
6. The new Cure album/tour
7. Stardust
8. The CGI TMNT Movie
9. The Transformers live action movie
10. Getting one step closer to enlightenment
And finally, the Top Reasons why God hates me:
1. If he puts all his hate onto me, he will hate the rest of you much, much less
2. Just because
3. Karma
4. Because I believe in a pagan belief such as karma
5. I am Filipino
6. I am a Filipino in Texas
7. I am lazy
8. He does not want me to be happy
9. I am dangerous when I am happy
10. Self Pity
_______________________________________________________________________
http://www.myspace.com/catterpillarboy
http://catterpillarboy.blogspot.com/
http://catterpillarboy.livejournal.com
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